Author: Admin
Date: 2015-12-22 12:40:18
Size: 2.46 MB
Keywords: A builiding of the Fluorescence Detector hosts 8 fluorescence detectors. The fluorescence detectors are able to detect the total energy of an air shower, which is approximately equal to the energy of the primary cosmic ray.

Author: Admin
Date: 2015-12-22 12:21:02
Size: 1.52 MB
Keywords: Each 3,000-gallon (12,000 liter) tank, separated from each of its neighbors by 1.5 kilometers, is completely dark inside - except when particles from a cosmic ray air shower pass through it. These energetic particles are traveling faster than the speed ....

Author: Admin
Date: 2015-12-22 12:20:03
Size: 11.62 MB
Keywords: The Pierre Auger Observatory's main visible feature is the 1,660 water surface detector tanks that cover about 3,000 km2 of the Pampa, an area about 30 times the size of Paris, and serve as particle detectors.

Author: Admin
Date: 2015-12-22 12:41:32
Size: 18.05 MB
Keywords: The charged particles in an air shower also interact with atmospheric nitrogen, causing it to emit ultraviolet light via a process called fluorescence, which is invisible to the human eye - but not to the Auger Observatory's optical detectors. Using a ....

Author: Admin
Date: 2015-12-22 12:24:15
Size: 13.77 MB
Keywords: Each 3,000-gallon (12,000 liter) tank, separated from each of its neighbors by 1.5 kilometers, is completely dark inside - except when particles from a cosmic ray air shower pass through it. These energetic particles are traveling faster than the speed ....

Author: Admin
Date: 2015-12-22 12:38:53
Size: 3.81 MB
Keywords: The Auger Observatory is a "hybrid detector," employing two independent methods to detect and study high-energy cosmic rays. One technique detects high energy particles through their interaction with water placed in surface detector tanks. The other ....